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Warning: Parameter 2 to SyndicationDataQueries::posts_request() expected to be a reference, value given in /home4/sattek/roguepolitics.com/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 2982013 October « Rogue Politics

After a two-month hiatus, The RJ Moeller Show podcast is back and better than ever! I’ve been hosting a weekly program for the American Enterprise Institute (and their Values & Capitalism project) for two years. It was a blast working, blogging and podcasting for AEI, but I decided to take the show in a different […] . . . → Read More: Re-Booting The RJ Moeller Show: James Poulos . . . → Read More: Re-Booting The RJ Moeller Show: James Poulos

Reason TV’s Remy channels Bobby “Boris” Pickett for this Healthcare.gov-Halloween mash-up. It is written and performed by Remy. The video is produced by Sean Malone. You can subscribe to Reason TV’s YouTube channel to get automatic notifications when new material goes live. You can also follow Reason on Twitter at @reason, and Remy on Twitter at @goremy and on You Tube here. For all of Remy and Reason’s collaborations, go here. Healthcare Mash Lyrics He was working on his laptop late one night when his eyes beheld a ghoulish site He could not log in despite several tries then suddenly to no one’s surprise (he did the Mash) He did the Healthcare Mash (the Healthcare Mash) it was a keyboard smash (he did the Mash) the website was trash (he did the Mash) He did the Healthcare mash Who could design such a site so flawed and so sloppy? The code is so ancient, perhaps it was Hammurabi He’d try to apply but the site would suspend I’ve seen a eunuch with a more functional front end (he did the Mash) He did the Healthcare Mash (the Healthcare Mash) it was a keyboard smash (he did the Mash) He tried […] . . . → Read More: WATCH: Hilarious Halloween-themed parody of Obamacare website . . . → Read More: WATCH: Hilarious Halloween-themed parody of Obamacare website

MY ULTIMATE POLITICAL CHRISTMAS PRESENT 2013 (or even 2014) I want the “Congress Affordability Act” passed… 1…a 12 year term limit, 2…then banned 5 years from being a consultant or lobbyist after leaving, 3…exempted from NO laws, 4…Senate and House budgets online for 30 days or their salaries suspended until they are 5…no pension, just […] . . . → Read More: MY ULTIMATE POLITICAL CHRISTMAS PRESENT . . . → Read More: MY ULTIMATE POLITICAL CHRISTMAS PRESENT

You would think Halloween would be the favorite holiday for leftists. After all, you go to other people’s houses and get free candy. But since the entire process is voluntary, that spoils the fun for our coercion-loving statist friends. Which may explain why a lot of Halloween humor has a libertarian bent. My favorite example […] . . . → Read More: Halloween Political Humor . . . → Read More: Halloween Political Humor

Get ready for another Tales Sinatra video, or as the fetching Mrs B might say…another Tales torture video. In light of the just released spying of Chancellor Merkel and other friendly foreign leaders in which the president once again says he knew n… . . . → Read More: He’s A Real Know Nothing Man . . . → Read More: He’s A Real Know Nothing Man

I haven’t talked much about Obamacare. It’s a charlie fox that will mess up the economy for years to come. It was also passed by deception, and fraud. Which is about par for the course in Washington DC anymore. The days of honest civil servants let alone elected officials seem to be far behind us. […] . . . → Read More: Lying Liars Who Lie . . . → Read More: Lying Liars Who Lie

Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox. Tonight, they clinched their third World Series championship in less than a decade. Here’s the mob scene after the clinching out: Boston becomes only the second team in baseball history to go from finishing last one year, then winning the World Series championship the next year. They join the […] . . . → Read More: Hail to the Champions . . . → Read More: Hail to the Champions

It was a weird and also a very good World Series. The Red Sox just wanted it more that the Cardinals did. It was mostly a pitchers duel for the most part, but in the end the Red Sox broke it open. And the Cardinals could not bring in the runs. They left too many on base and made too many errors in this series Congratulations to the Red Sox. And the Cardinals are not down and out. They still have a good team, with a lot of young talent. . . . → Read More: Congratulations Red Sox . . . → Read More: Congratulations Red Sox

The president and his team at the White House have obviously fixed on a strategy todeal with the fallout of the failed ObamaCare, and it’s fairly typical. They’re going to find someone else to blame, simply continue to lie about it and hope the low information voters and True Believers buy it.

He’s dropped the ‘if you like your health plan you will be able to keep it’ horse manure in favor of blaming the insurance companies for what he terms ‘substandard insurance policies’ and telling people to ‘just shop around for a better deal’ ignoring the fact that those who have are stunned by the high deductibles and high premium prices:“One of the things health reform was designed to do was to help not only the uninsured but also the under-insured,” Obama said. “And there are a number of Americans, fewer than 5 percent of Americans, who’ve got cut-rate plans that don’t offer real financial protection in the event of a serious illness or an accident.

“Remember, before the Affordable Care Act, these bad apple insurers had free rein every single year to limit the care that you received or used minor pre-existing conditions to jack up your premiums or bill you into bankruptcy.”

Such a great deal! If President Obama really wanted to weed out “bad apple insurers” who don’t provide enough coverage as he said in his speech, he could start by repealing ObamaCare.

Not only that, but the president knows very well that the insurance companies were compelled by the ObamaCare regulations to cancel most of these policies because under the arcane regulations of ObamaCare adopted after the bill was passed, policies that underwent any changes after March 23, 2010 when this tyranny became law are disqualified to be grandfathered, even if they were for choices you made yourself, such as eliminating coverage for maternity care if you or your spouse was past childbearing age or opting to pay a higher premium for a lower deductible.

The festivities continued on Capitol Hill, where DHHS Secrfetary Kathleen Sibelius was questioned by the House. She was there, of course, to fall on her sword as one of the president’s loyal functionaries and take full blame for the results of following his orders. Unfortunately, Congress wasn’t in the mood to play that game:

Hey. you lost your health insurance because of us and the premiums for a new policy are five times as expensive? Whatever.

And her response to Rep. Steve Scalise, who refused to let her get away with blaming this expensive fiasco on the insurance companies is worth watching, if nothing else but to see how Secretary Sibelius regards the little people that Rep. Scalise has to remind her that they both work for:

As a final coup de grâce, at the very moment Secretary Sibelius was testifying to congress that the ObamaCare website had never crashed, CNN ran footage showing it crashing.

Ever since the T.E.A. Party helped Republicans take back the House of Representatives in 2010—along with gaining a few seats in the Senate—Republican “leaders” in both houses of Congress, in classic “cutting off the nose to spite the face” behavior, have targeted them for elimination. These RINO WIMPS (Republicans In Name Only who are Washington Insiders Masquarading as Public Servants) have made it known that there will be no room for principled politicians in Washington, particularly when they upset the apple cart of the Republican establishment. Enter Orrin Hatch. In a recent interview, he refused to endorse his fellow Senator from Utah, Mike Lee, for re-election in 2016, because Lee and other T.E.A. Party members need “rehabilitated“ before they deserve his consideration. Which is confusing, when you consider that Hatch serves on the GOP re-election committee, and claims that he wants to protect every Republican running for office. However, the picture becomes much clearer when you look at a bit of recent history. Orrin Hatch still holds a grudge for having to defend his nomination in the 2012 Republican primary, when he was challenged by 37-year-old former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist, the T.E.A. Party-supported candidate. In bit of irony, Hatch made the case in that primary that he should be re-elected so that he could “help repeal […] . . . → Read More: Orrin Hatch Enshrined In The G.O.P. Hall Of Shame . . . → Read More: Orrin Hatch Enshrined In The G.O.P. Hall Of Shame